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Friday, 19 June 2026

Even Bad Luck is Some Kind of Luck #161

Strangers on a Train

Best Laid Plans

Ace in the Hole

They Shoot Horses Don't They

The Beast Must Die

The Grifters

Big Knife

Postman Always Rings Twice

Edge of Doom

Hard Times

The Thief (1952)

Point Blank

On the Waterfront

Mob City

Touch of Evil

Last Seduction

The Set Up

Jackie Brown

The Good German

After Dark My Sweet

Heaven Too

 

All This and Heaven Too
(Van Heusen/De Lange)
Mel Torme

Wednesday, 17 June 2026

Sixties Shadows

           The 1960s are often an underrated decade in Noir cinema as they are sandwiched between Classic Noir finishing in 1959 and Neo Noir starting to take real shape at end of 60s and beginning of 70s. But it's a decade which still produced superb Noir movies.

Plein Soleil

In Cold Blood

Accident

Spy Who Came in from the Cold


Knife in the Water

Point Blank

Le Trou

Eyes Without a Face

Deadly Affair

The Housemaid (1960)

Z

Blast of Silence

Tokyo Drifter

The Intruder (1962)

Le Samourai

Requiem for a Heavyweight

Peeping Tom

The Incident (1967)

La Femme Infidele

Pale Flower

Detective

The Hustler

They Shoot Horses Don't They

Le Doulos